Comments on: Scarlett’s birth story: V is for VBAC

By: Baby love: at first sight or a slow burn?

Baby love: at first sight or a slow burn? — Wed, 08 May 2013 18:30:28 +0000

[...] between meeting my son and meeting my daughter. 1. My son was born via C-section; my daughter born vaginally; 2. My son is a male child; my daughter female; and 3. My son made me a mother; my daughter was [...]

By: Kelli

Kelli — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 22:40:58 +0000

My victory baby is about to be one!! Mila was born in December of 2011 via planned cesarean. We found out she was breech at 32 weeks and eventually did an ultrasound to find my placenta was on the right side of my belly and she was stuck. So her squirming her way head down wasn’t going to happen. We are trying for baby #2 and I feel so relieved seeing successful VBAC stories!!!!! I hope that is a road we can go down

By: Kristal

Kristal — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 02:47:11 +0000

@whitney, maybe one of the drugs was amnesia inducing? Lol, I was so sick with preeclampsia that I felt incredibly better after! With my son I had a headache for a week after cuz I couldn’t have the blood patch with my blood thinners:/. Birth is hard no matter what!

By: Ghanimatrix

Ghanimatrix — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 02:38:01 +0000

I had my victory baby in February of last year. After my first birth which included a FAILED induction (imagine going home from the hospital STILL pregnant after 3 days) and scheduled C-section at 14 days overdue, I was determined not to carry so long, so we scheduled a c-section for 3 days past my due date. We had bags packed, my mom was already there, and we went to bed planning on going in at 6 AM. My water broke at midnight, we drove to the hospital in the dead of night and 12 hours later I pushed him out in a matter of minutes! I felt both births were fairly easy in their own ways. Recovering from a scheduled C is much different from an emergency C. Your body has experienced no trauma when they cut you and it’s much less painful overall – I have gathered this from the many experiences I have heard about. I consider myself lucky that both of my births were relatively easy and not scary – except for the minutes leading up to the actual birth which went so quickly that they weren’t ready and we had tons of people running around the room all of the sudden. We asked what was wrong and they were like “we didn’t expect you to transition so quickly – you’ve got to start pushing right now!”

By: RookieMom Whitney

RookieMom Whitney — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 23:00:12 +0000

@Kristal, during my lengthy recovery period from the VBAC, I also felt that neither were better, but my husband claims that I had forgotten how awful the c-section recovery was.

By: Kristal

Kristal — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 22:53:52 +0000

So my victory baby came into the world on July 6 2011(we almost thought we’d get a July 4 baby too!)
I had a c with my first at 33 weeks after 5 days of hospital bed rest with preeclampsia. I don’t really remember seeing her until the next day, and I was determined that wouldn’t happen with my son. My water broke while I was sleeping at 37 weeks. I went to the hospital and bec a friend had recently had a rupture while attempting a VBAC I had an epidural ASAP bec I was not going to end up under general while this baby was born. I ended up with a spinal headache from it after, and my VBAC was successful(and oddly slow paced and uncomfortable with a room full of people waiting for the next contraction while I was spread eagle with a baby crowned:/)
After experiencing both methods of birthing a child, I decided each had its benefits and its downsides….neither was “better”